Daily Archives: 02.11.2017

DTEK Mine Group named after Space Heroes is preparing to overcome the largest geological break in continuity in Western Donbass – the Bogdanovskoye Fracture, which will open access to a large coal deposit. The Bogdanovskoye Fracture divides excavations of the Space Heroes and Blagodatnaya mines. The total length of the fracture is 35 km. (Ukrainian…

Uralelectromed has purchased the fifth Ferrit diesel locomotive (the Czech Republic) valued at 14 million rubles. The machine will be used to transport cargo between the main industrial shops. “Four similar machines have been in use at our enterprise for the past two years and have proven their efficiency. With the delivery of the fifth…

TMK has started manufacturing insulated tubings of the 89-48 mm size with triangular section thread connection according to GOST 633. The first batch of 5.2 thousand meters of tubings produced by Sinarsky Pipe Works has been shipped to Udmurtneft. The tubings were made to order. “We continue increasing the range of insulated tubing sizes. This…

In January-October the Pavlik Company obtained 5 tons of gold at the Pavlik gold-bearing deposits. Until the end of the year the company intends to obtain 1.1-1.15 tons of gold more. Thus, the total result for 2017 will be 6.1 tons of the precious metal. Last year Pavlik obtained 3.95 tons. The gold-extracting factory at…

The Kyshtym Copper Electrolytic Plant (Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region, a subsidiary of the Russian Copper Company) has released its production results for the first 9 months of 2017. During that time, the plant produced over 97,128 tons of cathodes, up by 8.6% YoY. Copper rod production increased by 6.1%, to 72,784 tons, silver by 2.3% and…

Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, announces that it will be hosting its annual Capital Markets Day in London on November 2. Severstal’s Chairman, Alexei Mordashov, will open the event via video address. Alexander Shevelev (CEO), Alexei Kulichenko (CFO), Dmitry Goroshkov (Marketing Director), Sakari Tamminen (Senior Independent Director)…

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), an executive body of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), has suspended a decision in an abuse of market dominance case of Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) on request of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the commission said in a statement. In September, the commission imposed a fine for violation of…

In August, according to the customs statistics, Russia imported 29.1 thousand tons of corrosion-resistant rolled metal valued at $50 million, up by 15.7% and by 7.6% MoM and by 41.7% and by 48.2% YoY respectively. In July imports increased by 6.8% MoM in volume and by 12.7% in cost. In January-August Russia imported 190 thousand…

Taseyevskoye LLC, a part of Highland Gold Mining, intends in 2019 to start processing wastes of Baleyskaya Gold-extracting Factory No. 1 and obtain over 520 kg of gold per year. Expenses on the design works amount to $2.1 million. The company plans to develop the design documents and pass all the state procedures by September…

In 2018 DTEK intends to increase gas coal output in Ukraine by 1.5-2 million tons. “This year we will increase output by 1.5-2 million tons, to 23 million tons. And we intend to try to repeat this increase next year as well”, DTEK Energo deputy commercial director Dmitry Malyar said. In January-October DTEK imported 1.4…

The increase of the current coal price by 10% will improve the situation with paying salary to miners. According to the chairman of the Professional Union of Mining Industry Employees of Ukraine Victor Turmanov, the Ministry of energy and coal industry intends to increase state coal sales price from 2220 UAH to 2425 UAH per…

Cherepovets Iron and Steel Works has received the first 63 MW power transformer produced by Power Machines – Toshiba. High-Voltage Transformers. The new machine will replace the outdated one. The cost of the investment project is 200 million rubles. Reconstruction will be complete in Q3 2018. This is the third power transformer supplied by Power…

Chepets Mechanical Works has started manufacturing industrial ingots of intermetallic titanium alloys of increased weight (up to 1480 kg) for the aviation industry. The main advantages of these alloys are the high melting temperature, increased strength, plastic and fatigue properties, good high temperature strength at the temperature of up to 700 degrees C and better…

Debang Guangdong is initiating a construction of a new metal cluster in the Far East. In particular, an electrometallurgical works will be built. According to the Ministry of the development of the East, investments will total $2 billion. The projected capacity of the first stage of the enterprise will be 1-3 million tons of metal…

In October Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works produced 1.115 million tons of concentrate, up by 7.8% YoY. According to the company statement, sinter output dropped by 26.1%, to 168.3 thousand tons. In January-October UGOK increased concentrate output by 11.1% YoY, to 10.285 million tons, while that of sinter decreased by 10.2%, to 1.56 million tons.…

In October Zaporizhstal increased pig iron output by 17.8% YoY, to 372.4 thousand tons. According to the company statement, steel output dropped by 12.1%, to 292.5 thousand tons, rolled metal – by 6.9%, to 265.5 thousand tons. In January-October Zaporizhstal produced 3.11 million tons of pig iron, up by 1.7% YoY, 3.22 million tons of…

In October Ukraine produced 1.8 million tons of pig iron, 1.9 million tons of steel and 1.7 million tons of rolled metal, down by 3%, 2%, and up by 2% MoM respectively. As of the end of October 18 out of 28 blast furnaces (64%), 8 out of open-hearth furnaces (89%), 14 out of 21…